As an art historian, I specialize in the art and visual culture of 19th century Europe. My research focuses on the European image of non-European cultures, particularly in relation to the Middle East. My book, Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe, was published in 2003. I have also organized an exhibition of photographs of Iran from around 1900, Antoin Sevruguin and the Persian Image for the Smithsonian Institution. It was shown in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass., and before going on a nationwide tour. Having worked so much in museums, I teach museum studies as well as 19th and 20th century art. More generally, I am widely interested in contemporary art and theory, and strive to incorporate their insights into my teaching and research. Yogi was right!

By the Sweet Waters of Asia: Representing Difference/Differencing Representation in the Nineteenth Century in Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture, eds. J. Hackforth-Jones and M. Roberts, London: Blackwell 2005.

Archaeology and Photography: The Image as Object, in Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image, eds. S. Moser and S. Smiles, (Series: New Interventions in Art History), London: Blackwell 2004.

Photographic Perspectives: Photography and the Institutional Formation of Art History in Art History and Its Institutions, ed. E. Mansfield, London: Routledge 2002: 246-259.

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